Is Aatrox Garbage?

ArlanKels··11 votes·2,186 views

Title says it all.

I have yet to see a good Aatrox in season 6.

Am I blind or..?

34 Comments

DrNova4 votes

The only time I've seen aatrix any good is if sated.

Yash Gautam2 votes

Aatrox is bad early and unkillable late.

VivaLaKitten2 votes

he's good early, and whoever gets the kills early game, becomes good late game

Schizoid Steve2 votes

i fully agree with this. If the game goes on long enough and they catch up your back where you started in quite a few ways as well.

Shrek Luigi1 votes

You've got it backwards, lol

VivaLaKitten2 votes

Aatrox Aatrox is a beast early and mid game, and can still hold his own fairly well late game. He's definitely not the best but he's viable.

Spanked eGirl2 votes

He is not garbage, but he just is Meh in all the categories he does currently. 1v1 he loses to most of the tanky brawlers since he cant go full tank easily and still do the damage. Laning, his one engage is also his one escape. Like a less safe version of Zed W. In a team fight he has a hard time reaching the back line and provides little CC. So pretty much anyone else in the Jungle/Top lane right now can do his jobs better.

EmollientNut01 votes

Yep, because of MasterYi XinZhao doing what he does but better. Next question!

ArlanKels1 votes

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Yep, because of MasterYi XinZhao doing what he does but better. Next question!

What could they do to make him not garbage without turning him into another SUPER DUPER HOLY OVERPOWERED WTF?

EmollientNut01 votes

That's the toughest part about the whole thing haha, melee DPS isn't in a very healthy place right now. I think the easiest way they can fix it is with a rework that makes his ult a little less binary. He's supposed to be this brooding war devil, but he basically just looks and feels like a banana turned in to a demon. That's my look, anyway [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

Only Aatrox1 votes

late game yi cant 1v1 late game aatrox if built properly js

hOrnn1 votes

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Yep, because of MasterYi XinZhao doing what he does but better. Next question!

don't they use mana? and do they have a gap closer?

edit, I gap closer u don't have to use on an enemy...

DREADN0UGHT1 votes

HES GAHH-BAGE, MUFF CABAGE MUFF CABAGE!!!

ArlanKels2 votes

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HES GAHH-BAGE, MUFF CABAGE MUFF CABAGE!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXmOI2j-vA

DREADN0UGHT1 votes

precisely.

Shrek Luigi1 votes

Sort of--he's got a strong lane-presence against a few conventional toplaners due to his ridiculous sustain. He doesn't have a lot to offer in teamfights, though, and there are numerous AA-based melee Champs who outclass him in pretty much every aspect.

His jungling is also pretty bad. Fingers crossed for a Aatrox rework after Taric gets his, if not Yorick.

ArlanKels1 votes

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Sort of--he's got a strong lane-presence against a few conventional toplaners due to his ridiculous sustain. He doesn't have a lot to offer in teamfights, though, and there are numerous AA-based melee Champs who outclass him in pretty much every aspect.

His jungling is also pretty bad. Fingers crossed for a Aatrox rework after Taric gets his, if not Yorick.

He feels very very squishy too, even with his W's passive heal thing going. Like the slightest breeze and his passive is kicking in to revive him.

hOrnn1 votes

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He feels very very squishy too, even with his W's passive heal thing going. Like the slightest breeze and his passive is kicking in to revive him.

his W heal is only worth using if you are below 50% health, trying to stay healed up before you fear your laner, like they are fiora and want to all in you, or you are getting ready to gank/teamfight, always abuse his damage w and max it evenly 9 times out of 10, or 1 point ahead of e.

I hardly ever max e first, that's why I don't suck with aatrox.

hOrnn1 votes

the champion I have the worst trouble with on aatrox is easily fiora, I'm pretty sure its an unwinnable lane, ive beaten tryndamere down hard, darius, tahm kench, riven, you name it, kennen, etc teemo so easy I pick aatrox into him, but cannot find a way to beat fiora, her w guaranteed crit and burst is to good vs him, she can kill him then wait for him to stand back up and kill him again, even if he uses ult.

Bulletdive1 votes

Fiora isn't that hard in my eyes. You have to bully her without using your q, pre 6. Show her you are a man but be careful. She's very similar to Riven in attack pattern, meaning she can deal high burst, kinda pseudo-all-ining you like Riven but with lesser frequency. Bait her q with Blood Price ready, and when she runs back e her and start slapping with autos, Blood Price on. Considering minion damage you'll most likely end up trading evenly, retreat when your hp is approx. half and sustain back up which you'll do much faster than she can. Then repeat with more aggression. You'll feel it from there. Maxing w and e simultaneously is pretty smart tho, I thought I'm the only one. If you kill her this way like twice before 6 there is no need to fear her anymore. Always hold on to your q and in case she ults you to respond to your harass just jump away and wait her ult out.

FioraWillCarry1 votes

A fed all damage Aatrox with every life steal item is a scary thing.

Troy2426211 votes

I'll put it this way. There's never a good reason to play Aatrox in any position at any time, except in normals because you enjoy playing him.

ArlanKels1 votes

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I'll put it this way. There's never a good reason to play Aatrox in any position at any time, except in normals because you enjoy playing him.

Which is kind of too bad since it's a waste of a potentially good champ :(

ayyylma01 votes

He's I'm if those champs that you don't see a lot of but the ones you do see are great or garbage. Building him off tank is really the best thing to do. Here's what I do IE black cleaver boots phantom dancer with deaths dance and sterkers Gage.

hOrnn1 votes

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He's I'm if those champs that you don't see a lot of but the ones you do see are great or garbage. Building him off tank is really the best thing to do. Here's what I do IE black cleaver boots phantom dancer with deaths dance and sterkers Gage.

that's acctualy a really solid build, remember though you need a decent amount of health to make steraks a good item on a champion, I had a build close to that vs trynd and I stomped him, I rushed tabi into omen into deaths dance and and just kite his ult with my e slow and keep close, when it ends q on him and finish him.

but tbh, I prefer BT on him, I like the shield and his E and Q and upfront dmg on ult r magic, so it wont heal for it anyways.

I rush BT on him everygame unless I have to gotank, or I'm vs say shen/voli etc then ill get a bork, otherwise bork is not very solid, because his W scales with like 100% ad, so you want big ad numbers, because you can heal off those big third attacks that cost health ;)

fraggleroc1 votes

His numbers seemed weird last I played him. Lower than expected

hOrnn1 votes

because your one of those bads that maxes E on a right click champion, lmao, learn to press w and take it off heal and deal 500+ health late game every third proc with max attackspeed, do you even read?

if you have a team that knows what there doing, and u get a ga with his passive, they now have to waste time focusing you and killing you three times, while your carries are destroying theres, oh hes kiteable, with a 4x flash range knockup q and a slow on e? and a ranged autoattacks with his ult up? lmao yeah bs.

try building crit on him sometime, like IE and static shiv, third procs with crit is massive.

built him like this a month or so back and killed a sivir so fast I thought she flashed away.

Only Aatrox1 votes

1v1 me

hOrnn1 votes

idk check my 55 games with my 63.6% winrate, just beat riven top with him a few games ago, oh yeah won the game also.

hOrnn1 votes

also aatrox is a very good ganker out of the jungle, and his passive allows him to turret dive early and live.

hOrnn1 votes

welp another aatrox s, this time out of the jungle..yawn...

GULAG 4 U1 votes

If he gets ahead he's a full bullshit unstoppable monster. Behind he's pretty useless. And it's not easy to get ahead on him like khazix.

VinceusPhoenix1 votes

Nah We're out there just hiding in a Bush <.<

Aatroxic1 votes

add me and you will see what a aatrox main can do :)

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